Manufacturing Business Technology - December 1, 2006
Cover Story
A growing yet complex market is set to benefit from emerging standards
After a decade of lackluster—if not downright depressing—performance, the market for manufacturing operations application software is showing signs of a healthy recovery. In fact, manufacturing is decidedly hot, and getting hotter. Early results from Boston-based AMR Research's 2006 application spending survey show that manufacturing operations investments captured the No.
- Columnists
- Departments
- Enterprise Buying Decisions
- Prioritizing Investment Decisions
- Views From the Front
- Corporate
- NAM sees opportunity in election upheaval
- Demand-Driven Manufacturing
- Vendor alliance results in Lean solution for electronics industry
- Environmental Management
- Model-based approach to emissions monitoring boasts regulatory advantages
- Information Technology
- Business study says IT career paths stall in small enterprises
- Operating Systems
- Oracle undersells Red Hat for Linux support
- Operations
- QAD picks up FBO Systems for EAM extensions
- Plant to Enterprise Integration
- Group's generic model to blend ISA 95, OAGIS standards
- Procurement Technologies
- Search engine locates U.S.-based suppliers; presents supplier rating for more meaningful results
- Production Scheduling
- Automotive-focused solution broadens support for JIT sequencing
- Productivity Levels
- Economic forum report shows a decline in U.S. competitiveness
- Revenue Management
- Top U.S. companies find benefit in reducing working capital
- Risk Management
- Companies needn't gamble with global commerce, foreign exchange risk
- Supply Chain Execution
- Order-management solution supports multifarious customer interactions
- User Buy-In
- Flexibility and mobility increase CRM adoption rate
- What's Hot, What's Not
- Enterprise Systems
- A market remade by mergers & acquisitions has new models for serving manufacturing enterprises
- Supply Chain Management
- Risk and reward are found in logistics, transportation, and global trade
- Working With Integrators
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